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Onitis assamensis

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Species of beetle

Onitis assamensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Scarabaeidae
Genus: Onitis
Species: O. assamensis
Binomial name
Onitis assamensis
Biswas, 1980

Onitis assamensis, is a species of dung beetle in the family Scarabaeidae. It is only known from its type locality Kaziranga National Park in Assam state of India. The spiecimen was first collected in Kaziranga by A. K. Ghosh in 1971 and described by S Biswas in 1979.

Etymology

Named after the state Assam which is type locality where type specimen was collected.

Habitat

Decaying Rhinoceros dung .

References

  1. ^ Biswas, S. (1979). "The scarab beetles Coleoptera scarabaeidae of North India 2. 3 new species and 2 new records from India". Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 76: 338–341.
  2. Karimbumkara, Seena N.; Priyadarsanan, Dharma R. (2024). "Study on the genus Onitis (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) of the Indian Subcontinent, with three new species from India". European Journal of Taxonomy. 956 (4): 1–61. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.956.2657.

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Taxon identifiers
Onitis assamensis


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